Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best theme on the market for consultants is X Theme by Themeco. X Theme is the perfect theme for creating effective digital marketing materials for consultants. Tsavo Neal — Designer & Content Marketer. Tsavo Neal Consulting – Founder & Digital Marketing Consultant (OCT 2016 – PRESENT).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

economy in 2016. Too many sales teams (and other departments) enter data by hand but create fresh entries instead of searching their systems and updating existing accounts, which muddies their data sets. You can take a similar approach by arming sales with valuable information for engaging with prospects.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. billion) in the year to end-March 2016. billion ($1.39

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BCG

APRIL 20, 2016

Article Wednesday, April 20, 2016. In fact, our research found that companies such as Quest Nutrition, Fairlife, Bai, Vita Coco, and Sargento Foods—all of which target the market for high-protein foods and beverages and healthy, “mindful” snacks—are among the top performers in the entire industry.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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BCG

APRIL 5, 2016

Article Tuesday, April 05, 2016. A quiet revolution has been happening in sales over the past several years. While many companies have continued to adhere to sales models developed a decade ago, “digital attackers” have been busy reinventing selling.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2017

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. The market is pushing companies to hit incredibly high numbers, quarter after quarter and month after month. It is a vicious cycle.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2016

December new home sales surged well over the high end Econoday estimate. The outlook for the housing sector just got a boost from a sharp jump in new home sales, up 10.8 With builders slow to bring new homes to market, low supply remains a central factor holding back sales. For full year 2015, new home sales rose 14.7

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BCG

AUGUST 23, 2016

Article Tuesday, August 23, 2016. To capture the immense opportunities in emerging markets, pharmaceutical companies require highly targeted strategies. And what works in developed markets won’t necessarily work in emerging economies. The payoff for getting a targeted emerging-market strategy right is significant.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 24, 2018

This volume of new articles sparked an interest in me to learn more about this curious country. Chinese people really love their smart phones, and daily life is also being transformed by the many apps used for everything from hailing a car with Didi (the company that bought Uber China in 2016) to ordering food delivery with Ele.me

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BCG

AUGUST 11, 2016

Article Thursday, August 11, 2016. OEMs need to rethink their approach as digital’s expanding influence on the purchase journey transforms the role—and potentially the business model—of the dealer from sales center to on-demand advisor and service provider, both pre- and postsale.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Large US corporations posted their first decline in both earnings and sales since the great recession. Let's kick of the debate with the Wall Street Journal article U.S. of its total, as sales growth sagged for a wide range of wares. Sales are on pace to fall 4%—the third straight quarterly decline. US Back in Recession?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In fact, one of the keys to creating a successful online business in 2016 was to “ show people your site is secure and trustworthy.” Fast forward to 2016, and one can see Amazon using programs that were initially designed for marketing purposes to enhance security. 1-Click and Amazon Prime are two examples.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 10, 2017

In mid-2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Demand Swells for Chickens That Grow More Slowly.” ” The gist of the article is companies (Whole Foods, Starbucks, and others) believe customers will pay more for products from birds that grow slower (than those full of hormones and other additives).

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

I’m not surprised that the struggle to sell tickets in many markets was real. There was too much investment in the “V-shaped” recovery narrative and not enough in looking at what had happened in the market. This matters because ticket sales, merchandise, etc. We have economic challenges in some markets.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2017

Her article was based on research of 9,000 major acquisitions, which showed an investment in the Russell 3000 stock index would have increased by 200% from 2001-2016, while an investment in firms making major acquisitions would have increased only 67%. I’ve had clients with as little as $2-3 million in sale buy other companies.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. The product exceeded €10 million in first-year sales.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

The original reason given for the drastic demonetization action was to expose the so-called “black” market, fueled by money that is illegally gained and undeclared for tax purposes. Arguably, the surge in business for mobile wallets was natural, at least for the 17% of the population that owned a smartphone in early 2016.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2017

On September 27, 2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Doctors Give Pre-Surgery Orders to Get in Shape.” Go the market, to sell for what you want (as in the title of my book If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can’t You Sell Your Business (For What You Want)?)? On the top of the list are money and time.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

of China’s exports in 2016, according to the same report. But China also has a huge domestic market for fake goods: many consumers who buy counterfeits do so deliberately, because they want to pay a lower price for goods that look expensive. Do not wait until you actually enter the Chinese market.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. Addressing this dichotomy requires individuals who can “serve as liaisons” between the two, as Todd Clark and Dan Wiesenfeld suggested in a recent HBR article. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 30, 2018

For a full year, I conducted a Marketing Action Group program to teach and support participants to use direct, personalized emails to get new business. In this article, I want to share the results with you from that progrdam and also best practices for emails that get the most response. Email Marketing Course is now available.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 Looking only at that 15.2

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 30, 2018

For a full year, I conducted a Marketing Action Group program to teach and support participants to use direct, personalized emails to get new business. In this article, I want to share the results with you from that progrdam and also best practices for emails that get the most response. Email Marketing Course is now available.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. As expected, Calgary’s city council voted overwhelmingly against Uber in February 2016, forcing the firm to leave the city temporarily. Partner organizations. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. While 6% of the wine sold at Systembolaget in 2011 was organic, by 2016 it was over 20%.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Data-Driven Marketing. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. billion sales in India.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry. In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 times Vormetric’s sales.

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